Giant £33m home for elderly wins approval
A Planned £33million residential home for 109 pensioners has been described as "overwhelming".
PM
27 Feb 2008
News
Conservatives vote through another major development in town centre
Planning permission for a four-storey care home for up to 109 elderly residents is set to be built in London Road on a site currently occupied by just four houses. Sunrise Senior Living, a US company who will be charging a minimum of £700 per room per week, now aims to open the home within the next 2 years.
26 Feb 2008
Centre's fate is in balance
A Row has broken out amidst claims that a community centre is being deliberately run down.
PM
20 Feb 2008
Keys Hall "being run down for a quick sale"
Brentwood Liberal Democrats have discovered that bookings for Keys Hall, the community facility in Warley earmarked for possible disposal by the Conservative administration running Brentwood Borough Council, are being actively discouraged. Bookings can now only be made three months in advance and there is no longer a working kitchen.
13 Feb 2008
Runners look for silver lining to Olympic fiasco
The cloud of gloom hanging over Brentwood following the loss of the Olympic mountain biking event could be chased away by hopes of an athletics track.
KC
13 Feb 2008
Olympic-size row over 2012 disappointment
A Row has erupted after the plug was sensationally pulled on Brentwood being the setting for the 2012 Olympic mountain biking event.
PM
13 Feb 2008